NetGens and Social Media: Educating Teacher Candidates
Abstract: Using social networks to communicate has become the norm for typical teacher candidates ages 18-24. Such communication has both positive and negative consequences. Instant communication and sense of community are positives, whereas sexting, cyber bullying, online, predators, invasion of privacy, and plagiarizing are negatives. Neglecting to include lessons on the individual and social consequences of technologies can leave a void in teacher education. Why? It matters because how teacher candidates as students use Internet technologies and the habits and values formed will influence their use of and dispositions toward technology as education professionals.
Presider: Jennifer Rowley, The University of Sydney